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EVEN MORE INCONVENIENT: ‘A CRUDE AWAKENING’
“Energy is the most pressing issue. If you have clean abundant energy, you can solve all today’s problems: You can turn the Sahara into a garden, you can desalinate salt water, you can pump it wherever you want to have it. Cheap energy can develop the world. A barrel of oil — one hundred and fifty-nine liters — contains the physical capacity of what twelve men would have to work for over a year. It’s really the key to our time.”
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THE YEAR IN MOMENTS
If you click on the “Links” menu item of the Swiss Institute (New York) website, you’ll find yourself at once thrust into the curatorial sensibilities of Gianni Jetzer. The links are formatted along the lines of “Top Ten Lists” and toy with the often baffling correspondences of expression found on the internet. These top ten […]
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ON STAGE AND OFF AT THE LUCERNE FESTIVAL
This November (2007), The Lucerne Festival presents At The Piano, featuring an international cross section of everyone’s favorite stylists and grand masters: Alfred Berndel, Maurizio Pollini, Leif Ove Andsnes (with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe), Andreas Haefliger and the Labèque sisters. Also on hand are the specialists: András Schiff (Haydn); miniaturist Marino Formenti and the […]
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THE NEW FACE OF SWITZERLAND
Thabo Sefolosha, NBA rising star is not your typical NBA rising star. He’s part Swiss and part South African: born on Lake Geneva, raised in Montreux; lived in five countries, fluent in three languages, plays a mean shooting guard for the NBA, reads Paul Auster, listens to Method Man… He’s 23 and for Switzerland, a […]
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NOTHING LIKE THE SUN
Last year Martin Vosseler and a crew of four other Swiss adventurers made a historic crossing of the Atlantic aboard Sun21—a solar powered catamaran. This year Vosseler, a doctor by vocation, decided to take his message of solar power and energy renewal—on foot.
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THE SONGS A HOUSE BUILT
Marco Mahler is used to the cultural shifts and transitions relocation can bring. Born in Chicago to Swiss parents studying in the U.S, he moved back to Switzerland, where he grew up, at three and a half. At twenty, after knocking around various music scenes in Switzerland, he headed back over the pond to New […]